Ebook: Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2007: 10th International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 28-31, 2007. Proceedings

This volume contains the papers presented at SAT 2007: 10th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satis?ability Testing. The International Conferences on Theory and Applications of Satis?ability Testing (SAT) originated in 1996 as a series of workshops “on Satis?ability.” By the third meeting in 2000, the workshop had attracted a mix of theorists and experimentalists whose common interest was the enhancement of our basic understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the Satis?ability problem as well as the development of scalable algorithms for its solution in a wide range of application domains. In 2002 a competition of SAT solvers was inaugurated to spur further algorithmic and implementation developments, and to create an eclectic collection of benchmarks. The competition—expanded in subsequent years to include pseudo Boolean, QBF, and MAX-SAT solvers—has become an integralpartofthesemeetings,addinganelementofexcitementandanticipation. Theinterplaybetweentheoryandapplication,aswellastheincreasedinterestin Satis?abilityfromawider communityofresearchers,ledtothe naturalevolution of these initial workshops into the current conference format. The annual SAT conference is now universally recognized as “the venue” for publishing the latest advances in SAT research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2007, held in Lisbon, Portugal in May 2007.

The 22 revised full papers presented together with 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully selected from 74 submissions. All current research issues in propositional and quantified Boolean formula satisfiability testing are covered. The papers are organized in topical sections on encodings, max-SAT and pseudo-boolean, structure, local search, QBF, complete algorithms, proofs and cores, as well as applications.